2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- June 18-25, 2022 (pool swimming)
- Budapest, Hungary
- Duna Arena
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The 2022 World Championships will take place in Budapest, Hungary from June 18 – June 25, 2022. With a few days to go until the meet begins, FINA has released a list of which TV channels and websites will be broadcasting the meet in various countries. This coverage guide (shown below) lists how people in nearly every country on the globe can get access to the meet.
Prelims sessions for the swimming events will begin at 9 AM local time and finals will start at 6 PM local time. You can check out what that time corresponds to in various cities here:
Prelims/Finals Start Times
| CITY |
PRELIMS START TIME
|
FINALS START TIME |
| Budapest, HUN | 9:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
| Omaha, NE | 2:00 AM | 11:00 AM |
| New York City | 3:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
| Austin, TX | 2:00 AM | 11:00 AM |
| Los Angeles, CA | 12:00 AM | 9:00 AM |
| Honolulu, HI | 9:00 PM | 6:00 AM |
| Brisbane, AUS | 5:00 PM | 2:00 AM |
| Río de Janeiro, BRA | 4:00 AM | 1:00 PM |
| Tokyo, JPN | 4:00 PM | 1:00 AM |
| Toronto, CAN | 3:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
| Montreal, CAN | 3:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
| Beijing, China | 3:00 PM | 12:00 AM |
| Cape Town, South Africa | 9:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
| Naples, ITA | 9:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
| Paris, FRA | 9:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
| London, ENG | 8:00 AM | 5:00 PM |
| Berlin, GER | 9:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
The following list, courtesy of FINA, shows where to watch the meet on a country-by-country basis:
Africa
| Country | Coverage |
| Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central Africa Republic, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, São Tomé e Príncipe Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Socotra, St. Helena & Ascension, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Chad, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia (including Somaliland), Sudan, South Sudan | SuperSport |
| Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Tunisia | beIN Sports |
| Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia | Eurovision |
The Americas
| Country | Coverage |
| USA | NBC Sports (Swimming Finals only) & FINA Facebook Page for other competitions |
| Canada | CBC |
| Brazil | Globo/SporTV |
| Argentina, Anguilla, Antigua, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, Venezuela,
Antartica, Aruba, Netherland Antilles (Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, St. Martin/Sint Maarten, Saint Eustacius), Guadeloupe, Martinique, Uruguay |
ESPN Latin America |
Asia
| Country | Coverage |
| Japan | TV Asahi – tv-asahi.co.jp |
| China & Macau | China Media Group (CCTV5) |
| Malaysia & Brunei | Astro |
| South Korea | CJ Media – cj.net |
| Hong Kong | i-Cable |
| Taiwan | ELTA TV |
| Indonesia | TVRI |
| India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka | FINA Facebook page |
| Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine (including the Gaza Strip), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Syria, Jordan & Lebanon | beIN Sports |
Europe
| Country | Coverage |
| Bulgaria | BNT |
| Croatia | HRT |
| Cyprus | CBC |
| Estonia | ERR |
| Finland | YLE |
| France (including overseas territories: French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Reunion, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, St Pierre & Miquelon, French Southern & Antarctic Lands, Wallis & Futuna) | FT |
| Georgia | 1TV (Men’s Water Polo only) |
| Greece | ERT |
| Hungary | MTVA |
| Iceland | RUV |
| Israel | Sports Channel |
| Italy | RAI Sport |
| Lithuania | LT |
| Montenegro | RTCG |
| Netherlands (including overseas territories: Aruba, Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Saint Martin, Saint Eustatius) | NOS |
| Poland | TVP |
| Serbia | RTS |
| Slovakia | RTVA |
| Slovenia | RTVS |
| Spain (including overseas territory: The Canary Islands) | Eurovision All Aquatics |
| Sweden | SVT |
| Switzerland | SRG (SRF/RTS/RSI) |
| Turkey | TRT |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia | Arena Sport |
| Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark (including overseas territories: Faroe Islands, Greenland), Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, Norway (including overseas territory: Spitsbergen), Portugal (including overseas territories: The Azores, Madeira), Romania, Russia, San Marino, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vatican | AllAquatics |
Oceania
| Country | Coverage |
| Australia | NineNetwork |
In addition to watching live, as always, make sure you check back in on SwimSwam before, during, and after each session to get full coverage, results, and analysis of this meet.
Why not put the event on traditional TV -must every thing be “nerded” from now on. People stiil do watche on regular channels and you’re losing half your audience
Many thanks for the information. Now I can see it in Portugal. Cheers
This is just pathetic that without cable I can’t even do a pay-per-view, From comments below, my only option is to put my faith in a VPN, trust that it isn’t a shady operation that will steal my data, and watch a foreign broadcast. Shame on FINA for making such a Draconian agreement with NBC that makes it so difficult to watch in the USA, and shame on NBC for locking down coverage so tightly that people without cable can’t even watch it. This ought to be on network OTA TV instead of stupid golf.
And I am still trying to figure out exactly what is “live” in Omega Live Timing! It is the worst delivery for results…and doesn’t even include prelim times when they finally do issue the results, later.
I like how theres multiple random cities in the same time zone rather than just saying the times zone…
https://daddylive.eu/
Doesn’t seem Facebook is an option for US watching. Any alternatives for prelims?
https://m4sport.hu/elo/mtv4live/
Can you use a VPN and use CBC,
Yes, of course